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This 3 page paper discusses Barbara Kingsolver’s new book, “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle,” how it relates to sociology, and how it can alter a person’s relationship to food. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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of U.S. policies, especially in the wake of 9/11, when she criticized the hysterical march toward war instead of joining it. This paper considers her recent, non-fiction book Animal, Vegetable,
Miracle, and what the phrase "we are what we eat" means and how it relates to sociology. Discussion Fairly recently, people have begun to rediscover something that weve known all
along: food tastes better when its fresh than it does when its shipped long distances. That in turn means that people are now considering doing something truly radical: either growing
their own food, or buying food that is locally grown. There is another consideration to buying local as well, and that is the fact that shipping food uses up tremendous
amounts of fossil fuel. Any time a food product is not used locally, it winds up on a plane, train or truck, traveling sometimes thousands of miles before reaching the
end user. That is a great deal of fuel that could be used in better, more productive ways. In the book, Kingsolvers husband, Steven L. Hopp, writes that Americans "put
almost as much fossil fuel into our refrigerators as our cars" (Kingsolver, Kingsolver and Hopp, 2007, p. 5). We use approximately "400 gallons of oil a year per citizen" which
is almost as much as we use in our vehicles (Kingsolver, Kingsolver and Hopp, 2007, p. 5). The huge commercial farms use oil to run their machines, but even more
oil is used by what are called "inputs" (Kingsolver, Kingsolver and Hopp, 2007, p. 5). Inputs are things like herbicides, pesticides and synthetic fertilizers, which "use oil and natural gas
as their starting materials" as well as in their manufacturing (Kingsolver, Kingsolver and Hopp, 2007, p. 5). Piled on top of that is the oil needed to run the truck
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